it must've taken all of lestat’s will to maintain his usual resilient look, even though he hadn’t seen louis for 77 years and it shook him to the core, but then louis dumbfounded him with his sincerity and he put down all his walls and let himself collapse in front of louis ☹️
I loved Gabriella's eyes switching between human and vampire, ending on her vampire eyes in the face of her human self. Because Lestat has fought to separate his mother from the vampire Gabriella, so that it's not his mother doing this to him--and he finally faces that it IS.
victim-abuser who’s SA spans across centuries and so desperately love sick to the point of committing abusive acts in selfish desperation while at the same time enduring and trying and loving…. they’ll never make me hate you lestat de lioncourt